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iW PROFILE | "Margot At The Wedding" Writer/Director Noah Baumbach

It was an image of a mother and her son riding on a train sparked Noah Baumbach's upcoming "Margot at the Wedding" (opening this Friday, November 16th from Paramount Vantage). As Baumbach told indieWIRE during a conversation back in September at the Toronto International Film Festival, that visual e...

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iW NEWS | Film Independent Partners With B-Side For Spirit Awards

In a strong effort to eliminate paper and energy waste, Film Independent has partnered with independent film discovery and distribution company B-Side to offer online streaming of nominated films of the 2008 Spirit Awards. Members who wish to vote much register online by December 1, 2007. Only registered Film Independent members and IFP chapter members will receive voter information and the official ballot, which they can choose to submit online or by mail. Registered voters will also have access to view nominated films streaming online provided by B-Side. "B-Side is the perfect fit for our company's efforts in greening the Spirit Awards as t...

REVIEW | A Snark Tale: Frank L. Anderson & Barry Poltermann's "The Life of Reilly"

I'd guess that most people under 30 who know of Charles Nelson Reilly at all remember him as played by a leisure-suited, compulsively spectacle-tweaking Alec Baldwin on an SNL "Inside the Actors Studio" skit. The joke, as always, was that Will Ferrell's James Lipton was prostrating himself before a ...